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Geek Culture / I don't feel safe any more :(

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MikeB
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Posted: 11th Jul 2007 15:54
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/6290446.stm

I could see the police cars from my house .


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Zombie 20
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that's kinda creepy.

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There's like 2 murders per day in the UK, your bound to have one happen close by eventually.

We're going down... in a spiral to the ground...
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MikeB
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Quote: "There's like 2 murders per day in the UK, your bound to have one happen close by eventually."


Well that's encouraging, thanks a bundle...

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Silvester
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Posted: 11th Jul 2007 17:15 Edited at: 11th Jul 2007 17:15
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Intresting,long ago.about 4 years,and old woman near my old home was murdered.Her son found her 2 weeks after her dead in her backyard,with a knife in her chest...

But lets hope this doesnt happen alot...its creepy

As i'm actually starting to wonder,who is next?


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Opposing force
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Near where I live, police shot and killed a man who was wielding a sword and shotgun. This happened about a year ago I think.

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Fallout
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Posted: 11th Jul 2007 17:36
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Just down the road in basingstoke, the parts of a man were found strewn around the city, including his severed head in a local childrens play park. He'd murdered his mate (obviously not a close mate) with his katana and then chopped him up into little pieces, driven about and thrown them out of the window or something!


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soapyfish
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Quote: "driven about and thrown them out of the window or something!"


So ALL video games are to blame, not just the violent ones. Obviously that chappy had been playing paperboy.

We are the angry mob, we read the papers every day. We like who we like, we hate who we hate but we're also easily swayed!
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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 11th Jul 2007 17:44
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Quote: "There's like 2 murders per day in the UK"


I was ready to response "And The Rest!" and then thought I should check before assuming... You're not far off...
http://www.crimestatistics.org.uk/output/page40.asp

05/06 saw 765 homicides - 52 of which were 7th July related.

However, according to Wikipedia, UK has a 2.03 homicide rate per 100,000 inhabitants... That's NOTHING compared to Venezuela with a homicide rate of 42 per 100,000!

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soapyfish
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Posted: 11th Jul 2007 17:52
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It's the flesh eating bacteria in your corn flakes you want to worry about.

We are the angry mob, we read the papers every day. We like who we like, we hate who we hate but we're also easily swayed!
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Xenocythe
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Posted: 11th Jul 2007 19:10
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I shot a stop sign with my copper b-b rifle and it bounced off the sign and hit an old lady in the leg.


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Zotoaster
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Lmao Xeno.

You guys get all these insane murders, and in my town there's two ammature idiots who try to drive a car into an airport... they didn't even manage to kill themselfs, but the whole country is in turmoil.

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Quote: "they didn't even manage to kill themselfs, but the whole country is in turmoil"
Yeah, but they did try to drive a car into an airport. Not as if we all live in the UK sucking on pipes and saying evening Jethro to the local farmer, with no murders or the like. Even where I came from in Anglesey (middle of nowhere) you used to get a few people dying from knives, guns, cars etc etc every now and again. The burning car under the bridge when I came to live near London (Ascot area) was a bit of a surprise for a country boy like me though...

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Zotoaster
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Posted: 11th Jul 2007 20:45
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Quote: "Yeah, but they did try to drive a car into an airport"


They only did it because they knew they would wind everyone up Therefore, they still win even though nobody got hurt

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Manic
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Posted: 11th Jul 2007 21:03
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I watched the police raid houses and carry out controlled explosions from my student house in Leeds after 7/7. I never felt unsafe, I figured that if they came from Leeds, Leeds was probably the safest place to be.

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Posted: 11th Jul 2007 21:05
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Heh, my last name is Telford

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Oraculaca
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Posted: 11th Jul 2007 22:19
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Quote: "They only did it because they knew they would wind everyone up "

Actually from what Ive seen people were most annoyed at having holidays delayed.

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Zotoaster
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Really? Everyone I saw on the news were like "Hey we had tae wait a few hours but we goat on oor planes eventually, nae problem"

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Oraculaca
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hehe I meant, people were more concerned about their holidays being delayed than a car ramming the airport. I didnt mean they were 'most annoyed' just my bad English.
Anyways, all hail John Smeaton.

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MikeB
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Posted: 11th Jul 2007 22:45
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It was a bit freaky when I realised that one minutes walk away someone had been killed...

Mike

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Virtual X
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^^^

Eldest Dragon,

I feel amazed that you don't feel safe, I think it should be friends of yours who should feel unsafe, due to your Avatar, LOL
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MikeB
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Posted: 12th Jul 2007 00:52
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Quote: "I feel amazed that you don't feel safe, I think it should be friends of yours who should feel unsafe, due to your Avatar"


I'm just a pyromaniac

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Xarshi
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Posted: 12th Jul 2007 01:47
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I know someone who was shot through the face. It was some gang initiation in Memphis,and the bullet went through her face into her friends head and killed her friend. It was my drummers grandma. Well...not drummer anymore,but a friends grandma. She lives normally now actually. Which is surprising. I'd be shocked if i were shot through the face(cheeks).

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I lived in a remote town with 35 people for 15 years, and someone was murdered once...50kms away. Some guy did hang himself though.


I killed plenty of wallabies

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soapyfish
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Can't be a very big gang if the initiation involves getting shot in the face.

We are the angry mob, we read the papers every day. We like who we like, we hate who we hate but we're also easily swayed!
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Heh, 2 per day, NYC and LA would only wish thats all they had per day.

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I went Over the Rhine (Cincinnati) to do some community service once. There was a group of people just standing on every street corner. Made it difficult to concentrate on picking up trash.

And where I get my haircut there is a bullet hole through the window covered with a bit of tape so rain doesn't get in. Barber says it was a very good job no one was in the chair getting their hair cut at that moment.

Just hope you're not unlucky.

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Posted: 12th Jul 2007 10:34 Edited at: 12th Jul 2007 10:35
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I agree with Hobgoblin. That is nothing compared to where I live... In fact, I was even strangled and almost got shot (Not much compared to others).

No offense, but I laughed when you said you didn't feel safe. Course, then again I do happen to sleep with 3 swords, a metal pipe, a custom dagger, and a cheap dagger in my bed.... <But I feel perfectly safe... Who wouldn't. >

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You'd be amazed at how many murders there are in the cave I program in! lol!

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Quote: "No offense, but I laughed when you said you didn't feel safe."


None taken.

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Quote: "I'd be shocked if i were shot through the face(cheeks).
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I watched this movie once, and it was like a western (a modern one). This guy got shot through the cheek and later on in the film, after the gun fight, he took a swig of water from his canteen, and it showed the water leaking out from the gun shot holes in his cheeks! I wonder how the special FX team did that.

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Posted: 12th Jul 2007 13:19 Edited at: 12th Jul 2007 13:20
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^I saw a relative new asian movie called "Ichi the killer" (it's a pretty sick movie). There was a person there with holes trough his cheeks and when he smoked a cig, you could see the smoke coming out from his chin-vents.

Also in the movie "munich", a guy gets shot with an AK trough both chins. Can't imagine how that must feel, not the physical pain, rather the mental one.


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I'm happy i live in a pretty quiet town, it's alot like Hot Fuzz actually. No crimes here, just alot of accidents, lol.

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Here in the Canton area nothing major really seems to happen most of the time, but last month we did have a pregnant lady get killed by her boyfriend who happened to be a Canton cop.
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Quote: "but last month we did have a pregnant lady get killed by her boyfriend who happened to be a Canton cop."


I heard about that one. I'm just up north in Medina (Hinckley). We don't really have many serious stuff happening but back before we moved to Medina, there was a crazy ex-boyfriend who came to his girlfriends house on the street behind us. He shot up her car and slashed the tires and stuff or something like that. We heard all the gunshots and everything. If I had been looking out my window I probably could have seen him do it.

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Quote: "I'm happy i live in a pretty quiet town, it's alot like Hot Fuzz actually. No crimes here, just alot of accidents, lol. "


that made me laugh so much, i loved that movie. Is there a swan running amuk? I'm lucky out where i live, no break ins, no killings, nothing but nice safe countryside.

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Quote: "Quote: "I'm happy i live in a pretty quiet town, it's alot like Hot Fuzz actually. No crimes here, just alot of accidents, lol. "

that made me laugh so much, i loved that movie. Is there a swan running amuk? I'm lucky out where i live, no break ins, no killings, nothing but nice safe countryside."

Must...watch...Hot...Fuzz...

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Quote: "You guys get all these insane murders, and in my town there's two ammature idiots who try to drive a car into an airport... they didn't even manage to kill themselfs, but the whole country is in turmoil"


I can remeber that on the news. In Glasgow or Endinbourgh. They're car was on fire and one man had petrol on him
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Come to the US, it's great here! Murders rarely happen!

Sort of...


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Come here Finland, it's great here! Murders rarely happen!

But you froze on winter..


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